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(No ModelJ s. B. & P..F. LEWIS. BIFURGATED GARMENT AND GUSS ET THEREFOR.

No. 517,579. Patented Apr. 3, 1894.

IT'T/ JWELSDSES STEPHEN B. LEWIS, AND ERAnKLiN E: LE IS, OFYJANESVILVLE, WISOQNSIN,

SsIGNoE o THELEWIS'HKNITTING COMPANY. or SAME PL CE;

BIFU RCATED GA MENT AN 0 use E1 i'i-l EREFo R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of nag am No.; 517,579, dated April 3, 189a.

\pplicat'wnfiled May 18, 1893. "Sel m 1%, 474,684. on model.)

To all whom item/00y concern a f Be it known that we, ST PHENB. LEWIS and FRANKLIN F. LEWIs,"citizens of the United States, and residents of Janesville, inthej county of Rock and State ofjlVisconsin, have invented certain new'and usefullmprove ments in Bifurcated. Garments and Gussets Therefor; and we do declare. the following V to be a. full, clear and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and? use the same, reference being bad to the a'c-' companying drawings, an toletters of reference marked thereon, w ll; ch form a part of this specification, ji

Figure 1 of the drawings is aback view of a combination garment having theinyention appliedthereto; Fig. 2 is a front new of an und ergarment with the "invention applied.

thereto. Fig. 3 represents the part from which the supplementaryportion or gusset is formed. Figs. 4, -5, 6and 7 show thex supplementary portion or gusset in successive stagesofformation. I v I This inventionfhasrelationto certain new and useful improvements in bifurcatedfgar -ments and gussetsetherefonsnch as union suits, trousers,-drawers, equestrian tights; and

usimilar garmentsdesigned for, wean"'about' the legs. and thighs; and it consists principally in the combination with the usual main or bodyportion's of a garmenQ-of an improved gusset which is set into the garment at the bi- Y furoation thereof, ashereinafter more fully described. Garments ofthis'character as gen erally madehave-twomain or bodyp ortions; and two supplementary portions. By ourim provement, while the main portions may-be substan-tiellyfthej same asrthose-nsualiy GEL-7;

ployed, the supplementary portionconsistsoi.

' but one piece of simple construction; made in? sucha manner as tohiateriai iy reduce thecost of manufacttire of the'garnlentiwithont detracting from its desirability asfto fit or, comfort. i

Referr-ing-t'o the accompanyinggdrawings,

- Figs. land 2represen't garmentsconstructed in accordance fwith our improvement, the let ters A, and B designating the two mainpor 5o tions of the garments and 'O the supplementake 'a; strip jot material having substantially parallel sides, and-ofua length considerably greater than its width. -,The ends of this strlp may be square or pointed, or otherwise shaped, according to the de'signof the maker, or the shape iofij th par-tsA and 13.. Such astripwith pointed ends, is shown'in' Figifi.

Fig; shows the part 0 in its next step toi's'niade nearly-across it at its centralportioli,

the angle ofithis cfut being more or less acute, as maybe desired. The strip is next bent at the point bin suchmanner as {to cause the edges ic, e, of the V-shapfed cut to overlap each other, said overlapping edges being seg cured bya throughendf-through seamirom 1b to d, as shown in Fig; 5;- It will be-observed iselvagefromoneenld to the other.

and uniting it to A, the 1) being united by shown in saidFig. 1. Theinner edges ofthe flaps D, D fi'bm the points thereof to the points hand-h are stitched tothe front flaps e ti e e iiee re heme. and 9K699 e e f claim,and 1s--- 7, c. g

1. The herein described improved bifurcated garment, comprising the marnor body portions, and agusset G.for'med froma single desire tosecure by Letters Patent,

tion in reverse directions, forming three thicknessesof' the fabric at said portion, said flaps tary portion or gusset Int-he manufacture nfi diverging laterally therefromint-he planes of this supplementary portion orgusset we first e corresponding portion-of the Ward completion, wherein a \I-shaped out .a

that this gives the strip a continuous outer Figs. 6 and- 7, one branch or flap 'D- of the stripis folded in Fig. 1", the seam continuing along the outer 5 ea seam to the rear edge of thepart B, as

Having describedthis inventiom'wh'at we piece'of fahric,'having a triangularapex'por I tion, and two flaps folded over said apexpordiverging flaps, substantially as specified-f 2. In a garment of the class desci'fbedg-the gusset 0 formed from a continuous strifp of said folds and having therewith a continuous outer selvage, said gusset being set into the garment at thebifurcation thereof by seams along its outer selvage and folds and the back flaps of the main portions, and by seams at;

the inner edges of. the end portions of the fabric, having a V-shapedcut at its central portion and made from the -inneredwthet edges of said out being overlapped and so; Y cured, the two branches of the stripqbeing 1 reversely folded over saidseam, substantially asspecified.

3. In garments of the class described, the gusset 0, consisting of one continuous piece,

madeabout this seam in "sn'h a manner as to'- entirely cover .it from bothsides and present afoldededgefin'lin'e with theselvage edge,- 25

snbstantially'asspecified. i

{-Intestimony whereof we a'ffix our signat u'res i-n ptesence of tygowitnesses; 1

STEPHEN B. LEWIS. I FRANKLTN-RLEWIS.

Witnesses:

L. J. BARROWS, SILAS HA NER. 

